Yearly Archives: 2014
InvoTek receives $175,000 grant for ‘handcycling’ project
Grant Will Fund Development of Quad Rider – A Gear and Braking Device that Helps People with Disabilities Operate a Handcycle Safely
Alma, Ark. –...
Paralympian Jen French Announced as Conquer Paralysis Now’s First Champion
French joins the Sam Schmidt Paralysis Foundation's effort to cure paralysis in next decade.
St. Petersburg, FL (PRWEB) July 22, 2014 - Joining Conquer...
Kite-driven buggy to aid people with disabilities
Since sustaining a severe spinal cord injury in 2011, Skye Parker has been looking for ways to experience the outdoors again in a way...
Physio Spinal Cord
http://youtu.be/qL2l5t8wnTk
High school Physiology class lecture on structure and function of the spinal cord.
Patients with spinal cord injuries learning to walk again
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Two men who were told they'd never walk again are defying odds with help from Frazier Rehab.
Frazier Rehab is making their mobility...
Quadriplegic Perry Cross on why he travels to India as a ‘stem cell tourist’...
PERRY Cross was just 19 when he suffered a devastating neck injury that should have killed him.
Doctors told his family he had months...
The Need for Speed: Quadriplegic race car driver defies conventions
Chris Hrabik's blue-green Subaru Impreza doesn't have the brooding menace of a muscle car. It's dusty and plastered with sponsors' decals. Parked behind his...
Zina Hermez – My book, Not Without God: A Story of Survival has been...
What started out a dream has now become reality. I began writing Not Without God a couple of years ago, and I wrote sporadically...
Young man introduces extreme sport to skate park
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Spinal cord injury isn't stopping one skater
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A car crash last summer left 19-year-old Blake Simpson with a spinal injury and...
Naperville painter learned all over again after shooting left her paralyzed
It has been 18 years since Mariam Pare flew from San Francisco to Richmond, Va. for a weekend getaway.
Pare has not returned to her...
